[12:38] typing kekekeke (korean) is equivalent to lolololol in english

[12:38] it happened a lot in broodwar, something funny would happen and everyone would type lololol

[12:38] then someone would type kekekeke in sort of a trolly manner

[12:38] Fast forward, hearthstone came out

[12:39] In hearthstone a common phenomena during gameplay is one player will draw a critical card off the top of their deck. The card can be so critical the game is immediately won, and the opponent falls into an unrecoverable position

[12:39] When this happens, it's called a "top deck", as in drawing the winning card off the top of the deck

[12:40] It happened very often in "arena" mode of hearthstone, where top decks were particularly powerful and dramatic

[12:40] On livestreams of hearthstone arena, twitch chats would often times parade during this occasions with "TOP DECK"

[12:40] and in a trolly manner, some users would say "TOP KEK"

[12:41] kek as in korean type of "lol", or in other words, "top laughs"

[12:41] in this way kek became sort of a trolly way to parody a funny event

[12:41] and pretty sure kek, kekistan and keks or whatever all came from this timeline

I would probably add a little more to this timeline and talk about how kekistan and kek emerged in 4chan as a parody-style troll reaction to mainstream media's agenda of identity politics. Just to flesh out the timeline a little more.

Any thoughts or comments? Anyone have other insights, agree or disagree?

He skipped how in WoW when an Alliance character heard a Horde character say lol it translated to kek in Orcish. Also Top Kek was a popular expression on 4chan long before Hearthstone. There's also a Turkish cake brand called Topkek.

He skipped how in WoW when an Alliance character heard a Horde character say lol it translated to kek in Orcish. Also Top Kek was a popular expression on 4chan long before Hearthstone. There's also a Turkish cake brand called Topkek.